OFF-TABLE

POKER STUDY
SOFTWARE
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GUIDE
 WHY STUDY POKER
WITH SOFTWARE?

THINKING IN RANGES
Hand reading is the most important skill in poker. All strategies and tactics are in
some way based on your ability to read your opponents range of hands, analyze
the strength of their range compared to yours, and understand how these ranges
hit or miss a particular runout of community cards. This is exactly what poker
strategy software helps you do, in a variety of ways, at varying levels of complexity.

FLOPZILLA
Flopzilla is the most popular off-table study software for its simplicity and ease
of use. Plot ranges on the visual grid of all possible hole card combinations, input
a flop, and Flopzilla will show you how that range hits the board. This gives you a
good feel for how often players should or will be c-betting and/or continuing with
given ranges on given flop textures. HoldEQ is a popular add-on that allows you
to do some really in-depth range vs range exploration. Well give a brief introduc-
tion to using both programs in this guide, and link you up to additional resources.
PokerRanger and Combonator are popular alternatives with additional features.

FLOP FALCON
Flop Falcon presents information about flop equity and how two ranges hit or
miss any given flop. By controlling adjustable parameters like flop texture, range,
and what constitutes a hit and a miss, the program helps you develop an intu-
ition about making and reacting to continuation bets. Introduced in 2017, we give
a brief overview in this guide.

GTO SOLVERS
GTORangeBuilder, PioSolver, and HoldemResourcesCalculator provide dif-
ferent analysis of game theory optimal strategies for compared ranges and given
board runouts. They are advanced tools to gain insight and build intution in
common and unique situations and are recommended for those who are already
familiar with studying off-table with software.

OTHER OFF-TABLE STUDY SOFTWARE

Advanced Poker Training and PokerSnowie let you study versus poker artificial
intelligence (AI) so you can study while you play. ICMizer is a a popular tool for
analyzing the indpendent chip model (ICM) value of your chips in a tournament,
where their value varies depending on a number of factors. Equilab and our own
Red Chip Poker Fold Equity Calculator help tabulate equity in various situations
for a better understanding of the expected value of specific hands is specific spots.
 INTRODUCTION TO
FLOPZILLA & HOLDEQ

USING FLOPZILLA
Here are the key features of the most popular off-table poker study software:

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1. Saved ranges allow you to quickly populate the range matrix with commonly
used and custom-built ranges, saving you the time of drawing it in.
2. The range matrix let you to plot pre-flop hole card ranges, combo by combo,
with great flexibility. Set range by percentage form using the bottom bar. The
vertical bar is used to weight particular combos, for example, if they continue
with AKo 50% of the time, this can be fine-tuned in the range matrix.
3. The board matrix is where you specify flop, turn and river runouts. Leave it
blank to see how the range you defined his all possible flops.
4. The statistics area displays the equity of made hands and draws given the de-
fined range and the board runout. The equities of hands that have red check
marks are added together to give you an overall idea of how your defined
range hits a given board. Knowing this is key to calculating implied and
reverse implied odds.
5. Typically, the dead cards area is where you specify your own hole cards, elim-
inating them from the range matrix where your opponents range is input.

WATCH SPLITSUITS
FLOPZILLA TUTORIAL
 INTRODUCTION TO
FLOPZILLA & HOLDEQ (cont.)

FLOPZILLA ANALYSIS EXAMPLES

What are some things you can use Flopzilla to figure out?
How do common ranges (such as AK, QQ+) hit all possible flops? How do
these ranges hit common flops?
What is the equity of our hand vs. Villains range on all possible flops? How
about a specific flop?
How often will Villain call our c-bet with a given range on a given board?
And once Villain calls, how often will they continue with that range on all
given turn and/or river cards? How about speicific turn and/or river cards?

HOLDEQ
HoldEQ is a free Flopzilla add-on that allows you to do some in-depth range vs.
range exploration. It allows you to visualize range advantage and quickly analyze
which range benefits most from a given flop, turn and river runout. By building
an understanding and intution of which community cards are likely to benefit
our opponents range versus our own, we can better plan our post-flop play.

HoldEQ works by pairing with multiple Flopzilla instances to give a centralized

equity calculation comparing two or more ranges, illustrating which player has
range advantage, and to what degree one range has more equity than another.

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1. Open a separate Flopzilla window for each player to build ranges.

2. Ranges input in Flopzilla will automatically appear in the Range box.
3. Click the RSS button, then the Flopzilla window, to auto-populate range
values into HoldEQ based on your settings in FlopZilla.
4. Once paired, HoldEQ will pull board and dead card values from Flopzilla.

WATCH SPLITSUITS
HOLDEQ TUTORIAL
 INTRODUCTION
TO FLOP FALCON

USING FLOP FALCON

Input two ranges, define what constitutes a hit for each player, then chose a
board texture or specific flop runout. Flop Falcon simulates thousands of flops to
help you visualize and compare how two ranges hit any given board, with histo-
grams that break down equity percetiles in great detail.

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1. Define what constitutes a hit on the flop for you.

2. Define a range for you and your opponent.
3. View equity histograms for all scenarios: You both hit, you both miss, you hit
and they miss, you miss and they hit.
4. Define what constitutes a hit on the flop for your opponent.
5. Define a general board texture or a specific flop runout, with and without
variables.

WATCH DOUG HULLS

FLOP FALCON TUTORIAL
 OFF-TABLE POKER STUDY
SOFTWARE RESOURCES

RED CHIP POKER SOFTWARE GUIDE

The Poker Strategy Software Guide from Red Chip Poker gives brief overviews,
links and videos for the most popular off-table study sofware available.

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